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| Aug-18-08 | | BlackWaive: Opening of the day.
When I first started getting serious about playing chess, Bird's Opening was my opening of choice - like Henry Bird himself, I desired to surprise my opponents and avoid their opening knowledge and preparations altogether. I'm no longer dedicated to the Bird, but it's still one of my favorite and most played openings. I treat it like a Dutch Attack - in other words, most of my games resemble a Queen's Indian Reversed with f4. |
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| Aug-18-08 | | whiteshark: In Timothy Taylor's book
<Bird's opening - <detailed coverage of an underrated and dynamic choice for White>> he only has 24 page on <The Leningrad Bird>. Actually he presented/analysed only six (!) games. I was really disappointed by this <dynamic <>> shortage. :( |
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| Aug-24-08 | | myschkin: . . .
in German:
http://www.scr-kuppenheim.de/test/b... |
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| Sep-25-08 | | BrownRecluse: Over at GameKnot I just got into what I think was a reversed from's. first time I've ever seen that: [Event "Mesquite Grill!"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=103..."]
[Date "2008.09.24"]
[Round "-"]
[White "brownrecluse"]
[Black "madmurdoch"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1209"]
[BlackElo "1234"]
[TimeControl "1/259200"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "normal"]
1. f4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. d3 exd3 4. Bxd3 e6 5. Nf3 Nf6
6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Bd2 O-O 8. O-O Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Nh5 10. Ne5 Nxf4
11. Qg4 Nxd3 12. cxd3 g6 13. Qh3 d6 14. Nxg6 Rxf1+ 15. Rxf1 e5
16. Qg3 Nd7 17. Ne7+ Kh8 18. Rf7 Qxe7 19. Qg7# 1-0
A rather Rara Avis. |
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| Sep-27-08 | | just a kid: I found a trap in the From's gambit.
1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 Qh4+ 3.g3 Be7 4.gxh4?? Bxh4#.Although this can be easily avoided by 4.Nf3! |
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| Oct-03-08 | | sneaky pete: A pity we don't have any games with the Steinlach-Hobbs-Gambit 1... g5!! 2.fxg5 h6!! here. |
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| Jan-08-09 | | YoungEd: Bird's Opening will always have a following amongst hack players like me for several of the same reasons that the Colle System will: 1. It can catch an unprepared opponent off guard.
2. It has easily grasped objectives (control of e5; K-side attack; etc.).
3. It is not entirely monolithic (can go for Stonewall, Q-side fianchetto, etc.).
4. There are just enough spectacular white victories to make it seem tempting! I think it's fun! I'll keep playing it. |
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| Jan-08-09 | | refutor: 5. you can get the king's gambit (1.f4 e5 2.e4!) without worrying about figuring out a line v. the caro-kann, sicilian, french, etc. |
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| Jan-08-09 | | MaxxLange: 1. f4 c6
1. f4 e6
1. f4 c5
1. f4 g6
1. f4 d6
etc...
all are playable for Black. Black is OK!
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There is a Scandinavian player who has some good YouTube material about a so-called Bird "Polar Bear" system - seems to be aiming for a reversed Leningrad Dutch, but with some differences. I think the guy is a correspondence GM. |
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| Feb-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: if Black responds 1...d5, is eco A02 also eco A03? |
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| May-01-09 | | just a kid: Usually I will play the bird if I know my opponent will play the from gambit.I then play 2.e4 transposing into the king's gambit.It they play anything else I will usually go 2.Nf3,3.g3,4.Bg2,and 5.0-0 to reach a reti-like position. |
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| Oct-02-09 | | tranquil simplicity: Hi MaxxLange! I believe the guy you are referring to is the Danish GM Henrik Danielsen. He is a 1.f4 Specialist though i noticed recently he switched his repertoire and is consistently playing 1.g3. |
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| Oct-08-09 | | Marmot PFL: <ganstaman> It's only a reverse Dutch if black wants it to be. |
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| Mar-05-10 | | drukenknight: A pretty good From Gambit, white outplays me for 26 moves until violating a basic principle. lots of pins here starting w/ white’s Q 1. f4 e5
2. fxe5 d6
3. exd6 Bxd6
4. Nf3 Bg4
5. g3 Qe7 (according to crap pc this is a novelty believe it or not, but I try on principles, pinning the pawn, as I have no tactical ability) 6. Bg2 Nf6
7. O-O Nc6
8. c3 O-O-O
9. d4 Qd7
10. Bg5 h5
11. Nbd2 Be7
12. e4 Nh7
13. Bxe7 Qxe7
14. Re1 (14 h3 also leads to =)
14…. h4 (about this pt. I began to get ahead on the clock 4 min to 3 so it was fun to play this attack and hope he runs out of time before I mess it up) 15. gxh4 g5
16. h3
after 16 h3 I mess this up here:
click for larger view16...Bh5?! (what do you think?)
17. d5 Ne5
18. Qa4 Qc5+?!crap pc suggest 18….Nd3 but white stll has an advantage 19. Qd4 Nxf3+
20. Bxf3 Qxd4+
21. cxd4 g4
22. hxg4 Rhg8
23. g5 Bxf3
24. Nxf3 f6
25. Kf2 fxg5
26. hxg5 Rdf8
after 26…Rf8
click for larger view27. Rg1?? dude? duh. |
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| May-04-10 | | rapidcitychess: Try the Stonewall against littlechess partner. Or Jester for that matter. This seeming junk really cracks them. |
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| Jul-21-10 | | jbtigerwolf: All this stuff about the From Gambit is interesting, but you may find it hard to come across if you play 1.f4. According to Wikipaedia, the most common replies to 1.f4 are:
d5 49%, Nf6 15%, e5 11%, c5 9%, g6 8%, d6 2%, others less than 0.5% OK, so in half your games expect to play against 1...d5. Then it's 1...Nf6 as well, bringing us to 66% with no From... in fact, only 1 out of 9 games can you expect 1...e5 and then it from someone who knows the From (otherwise, 1...e5 looks bizarre, if you didn't know about the gambit). What to do against 1...d5? Someone said "I hate it when they play that." Playing a risky opening hoping against the most common reply (half!) can't be good. |
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Dec-27-10
 | | Penguincw: I don't think opening a diagonal towards your king is a good idea sometimes. 
click for larger view |
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| Dec-27-10 | | parisattack: <Penguincw: I don't think opening a diagonal towards your king is a good idea sometimes. > At least not on the first move. While its undoubtedly playable, Bird's just commits white to too much, too early. The weakness at e3 is another problem with it. |
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Dec-27-10
| | Penguincw: <parisattack> Well d4 is OK but there's a line in the King's Gambit that forces the white king to move early on which goes : 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 and looks like this : 
click for larger view |
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| Dec-27-10 | | Shams: <PenguinCW> Bah, white's king is fine on f1. Real men bring it to e2, e.g. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d6 3.Nc3 ef 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2:
click for larger viewGame on! |
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Dec-28-10
| | Penguincw: <Shams> I guess you're like maybe after something like this ...5. Bg4+ 6. Nf3 Qh5 7.h3 Bxf3+ 8.gxf3 I see no real harm for the white king. 
click for larger view |
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| Dec-28-10 | | Shams: <Penguincw> Well, the rook is loose on h1 7.h3 doesn't threaten much. White should definitely grab the f4 pawn if black allows it. I'll be honest I have next to no experience in this line. |
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| Feb-07-11 | | meppi: hi everyone, what do you think of this opening scheme I have been using in the birds opening. i try to go into birds opening via transposition like this; 1. d4 d5
2. Nc3 Nf6
3. Bg5 Nd7 - (or e6 both common)
4. f4
This is the start of the set up.
After this black usually plays something like 4. Bb4 or Be7 and then 5. e3
6. Nf3
7. Bd3
and 8. 0-0
And I have the position set up that I want in birds opening. I use the 2 Bg4 transposition to keep the dark square bishop outside the pawn chain, sometimes i trade it off for the knight on f6 or move it back to h4 if black plays h6. |
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| May-22-11 | | jbtigerwolf: What do you folks make of the Fred Defense? 1.e4 f5. Is it playable for Black? I just wanted to put this out there in a thread like this, with lateral thinkers. |
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| Jun-23-11 | | Everyone: Every time a <Bird> poops on my chessboard, I eat a plate of scrambled eggs on my porch, just to show them what I'm capable of... :D |
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